" And the son of Lycaon answered, "Aeneas, I take him for none other than the son of Tydeus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

135 Two authentic lists, of the present and of the twelfth century, are circumscribed within the respectable number of two thousand seven hundred villages and towns.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Empty each seat where my girl friends acclaimed me, Poets with names on the tiered stone engraven, Over whose verge blooms the apple tree, drifting Perfume and petals; Gone Telesippa and tender Gyrinno, Anactoria, woman divine; Atthis, Subtlest of soul, fair Damophyla, Dica, Maids of the Muses.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Yet the most respectable of the ecclesiastical writers have been obliged to confess, not only that the streets of Jerusalem were filled with the incessant tumult of business and pleasure, but that every species of vice—adultery, theft, idolatry, poisoning, murder—was familiar to the inhabitants of the holy city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We had no objections to this state of things, for Wilson was a kind old man, and had an encouraging and pleasant way of speaking to us, which made everything go easily.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

He dared not own that the severity of the sentence frightened him, and that its fulfilment had come too soon upon his curses.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Not an inch of the way does Henriot make: "I receive no orders, till the Sovereign, yours and mine, has been obeyed."
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Upon this the senses write their impressions, fantasias and by experience of a number of these the soul unconsciously conceives general notions koinai eunoiai or anticipations.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

" It had never occurred to the straightforward and simple-minded Vicar that one of his own flesh and blood could come to this!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

This young man was no other than the son of P——, though he bears another name.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among these is Abu-Hanifa, who states in his book that the names of the twelve signs (of the Zodiac) did not originate from the arrangement or [Pg 234] configuration of the stars resembling the figure from which the name is derived.
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore

White Raḳḳah, Black Raḳḳah, Burnt Raḳḳah, and no {55} less than two Middle Raḳḳahs figure upon their pages, and it is impossible to determine whether any or none of these titles stands for Râfiḳah, or which of them denotes the old Raḳḳah.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

I mean when he does it directly contrary not only to the Sense , but to the Temper and Genius of his Author; and that too in those Instances which injure him not only as a good Poet , but as a good Man .
— from The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Joseph Trapp

For it shows not only that the spiritual movement needs the active co-operation of man, but also that there is a conflict within humanity itself against the perversion of the spiritual; that there must be more within man and operative in him than the narrowly human.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

p. 771‒798.—It is scarcely necessary to state, that the greater part of those who, in the present day, oppose the baptism of infants, do not hold a number of the tenets specified above.
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie

As the golden disk is no other than the sun, the Morning-star of the Modocs is the same character as the Lucifer of the Latins.
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin